Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 58 67
Rank change year-on-year -57 +9 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,554 1,909 3,639
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 4.37% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 4.69% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,104 979 2,707
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -55 1,422 £75,000 +3.45% 683
UK excluding London -108 724 £65,000 -7.14% 414
London -3 708 £85,000 +0.29% 329
Work from Home -33 672 £69,310 -0.99% 497
North of England -62 322 £69,310 -4.07% 126
South East -58 180 £67,500 -3.57% 117
North West -58 162 £75,000 +5.26% 92
Yorkshire -28 93 £67,153 -8.87% 24
Midlands -93 76 £67,750 +2.26% 41
North East +15 67 £65,000 -6.50% 11
South West -85 66 £52,500 -23.39% 57
West Midlands -62 55 £80,000 +14.29% 23
East of England -34 40 £60,100 -1.88% 20
Scotland -67 28 £62,500 -20.70% 17
East Midlands -68 20 £65,000 +4.00% 18
Wales -43 10 £53,171 +2.25% 21
Northern Ireland -35 7 £62,500 +25.00% 21
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.09%) Confluence
3 12 (0.77%) Apache
3 12 (0.77%) CMS
3 12 (0.77%) IIS
3 12 (0.77%) OpenStack
4 10 (0.64%) JBoss
4 10 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.39%) WordPress
7 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.32%) Camunda
7 5 (0.32%) Drupal
8 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.19%) Liferay
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.064%) Strapi
Applications
1 8 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.064%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.064%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 836 (53.80%) AWS
2 644 (41.44%) Azure
3 303 (19.50%) GCP
4 243 (15.64%) Serverless
5 154 (9.91%) SaaS
6 135 (8.69%) GitHub
7 132 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (6.50%) Amazon S3
10 92 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
11 82 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
13 69 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
14 64 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
15 61 (3.93%) Azure Service Bus
16 49 (3.15%) Azure AKS
17 46 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 43 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
19 42 (2.70%) Datadog
19 42 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.86%) Broadband
2 22 (1.42%) Network Security
3 11 (0.71%) DNS
3 11 (0.71%) MQTT
4 8 (0.51%) VPN
5 7 (0.45%) DHCP
5 7 (0.45%) DMARC
5 7 (0.45%) Firewall
5 7 (0.45%) HTTP
6 6 (0.39%) AMQP
6 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.32%) Internet
7 5 (0.32%) LTE
7 5 (0.32%) RFID
8 3 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
8 3 (0.19%) Modbus
9 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.13%) SNMP
9 2 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (13.00%) NoSQL
2 198 (12.74%) MongoDB
3 183 (11.78%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (6.18%) MySQL
5 83 (5.34%) Relational Database
6 75 (4.83%) SQL Server
7 74 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (3.35%) DynamoDB
10 41 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (2.57%) Redis
12 31 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.87%) Big Data
14 25 (1.61%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.64%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.58%) DB2
17 8 (0.51%) Power BI
18 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
18 6 (0.39%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 194 (12.48%) Git
2 147 (9.46%) GitLab
3 127 (8.17%) Jenkins
4 55 (3.54%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.83%) JUnit
6 41 (2.64%) JIRA
7 38 (2.45%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.06%) Mockito
9 30 (1.93%) CircleCI
10 29 (1.87%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.87%) Maven
11 27 (1.74%) Claude Code
12 17 (1.09%) Selenium
13 16 (1.03%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.97%) JMeter
14 15 (0.97%) Vite
15 12 (0.77%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.58%) Postman
16 9 (0.58%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 434 (27.93%) Finance
2 299 (19.24%) Social Skills
3 159 (10.23%) Banking
4 135 (8.69%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (5.79%) Law
6 86 (5.53%) Retail
7 77 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (3.54%) Financial Institution
9 45 (2.90%) Back Office
10 31 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.48%) Marketing
13 19 (1.22%) Advertising
13 19 (1.22%) Billing
14 14 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.77%) Legal
16 10 (0.64%) Front Office
16 10 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 529 (34.04%) Developer
2 390 (25.10%) Senior
3 323 (20.79%) Software Engineer
4 223 (14.35%) Architect
5 210 (13.51%) Lead
6 137 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 135 (8.69%) Java Developer
8 118 (7.59%) Java Engineer
9 116 (7.46%) Senior Developer
10 110 (7.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 104 (6.69%) .NET Developer
12 86 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
13 67 (4.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 64 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
15 61 (3.93%) Software Developer
16 56 (3.60%) Lead Developer
17 52 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.28%) Senior Java Engineer
19 47 (3.02%) Java Software Engineer
20 43 (2.77%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (21.75%) .NET
2 336 (21.62%) React
3 280 (18.02%) Node.js
4 269 (17.31%) Spring
5 262 (16.86%) RESTful
6 241 (15.51%) Spring Boot
7 220 (14.16%) REST
8 200 (12.87%) Kafka
9 137 (8.82%) AngularJS
10 116 (7.46%) .NET Core
11 113 (7.27%) ASP.NET
12 112 (7.21%) Vue
13 86 (5.53%) ASP.NET Core
14 82 (5.28%) gRPC
14 82 (5.28%) HTML
15 74 (4.76%) CSS
16 64 (4.12%) .NET Framework
17 62 (3.99%) RabbitMQ
18 56 (3.60%) OAuth
19 54 (3.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 445 (28.64%) Cloud Native
2 268 (17.25%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
6 51 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.96%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.90%) Over-the-Top Content
9 37 (2.38%) Algorithms
10 36 (2.32%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.67%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
14 23 (1.48%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.35%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (1.29%) e-Learning
16 20 (1.29%) PKI
17 19 (1.22%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.92%) Linux
2 38 (2.45%) Windows
3 20 (1.29%) Unix
4 7 (0.45%) Android
4 7 (0.45%) CentOS
4 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.32%) Debian
5 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (50.58%) CI/CD
2 642 (41.31%) Agile
3 570 (36.68%) Software Engineering
4 568 (36.55%) DevOps
5 390 (25.10%) Containerisation
6 389 (25.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 356 (22.91%) Mentoring
8 326 (20.98%) Test Automation
9 308 (19.82%) Event-Driven
10 295 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 288 (18.53%) AI
12 287 (18.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 279 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
14 197 (12.68%) Scrum
15 190 (12.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 186 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
17 183 (11.78%) Coaching
18 178 (11.45%) TDD
19 176 (11.33%) Clean Code
20 162 (10.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 528 (33.98%) Java
2 401 (25.80%) Python
3 351 (22.59%) SQL
4 339 (21.81%) JavaScript
5 318 (20.46%) C#
6 253 (16.28%) TypeScript
7 124 (7.98%) Go
8 51 (3.28%) Scala
9 49 (3.15%) PHP
10 44 (2.83%) C++
11 42 (2.70%) Bash
12 28 (1.80%) C
12 28 (1.80%) Ruby
13 23 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 23 (1.48%) Rust
14 20 (1.29%) PowerShell
15 19 (1.22%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.03%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.90%) Bicep
18 12 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 183 (11.78%) Security Cleared
2 167 (10.75%) Degree
3 122 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 89 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.80%) AWS Certification
6 31 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 29 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.67%) CISSP
9 21 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.71%) CISM
14 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.45%) PhD
16 5 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.32%) GIAC
16 5 (0.32%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.08%) QA
2 47 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 35 (2.25%) GDPR
4 33 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.48%) NIST
7 21 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.90%) GRC
9 11 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.64%) NCSC
10 10 (0.64%) WCAG
11 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.19%) SEPA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 447 (28.76%) Docker
2 17 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 480 (30.89%) Kubernetes
2 295 (18.98%) Terraform
3 88 (5.66%) Ansible
4 86 (5.53%) Grafana
5 47 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.61%) Argo
7 23 (1.48%) Kibana
8 15 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.84%) Puppet
10 12 (0.77%) Cilium
11 7 (0.45%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Podman
13 3 (0.19%) Istio
13 3 (0.19%) Rancher
14 2 (0.13%) MIIS
14 2 (0.13%) Nagios
14 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 175 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 67 (4.31%) Google
3 52 (3.35%) Oracle
4 45 (2.90%) Typelevel
5 24 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.35%) Splunk
7 16 (1.03%) AppDynamics
8 14 (0.90%) IBM
9 13 (0.84%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.64%) Adobe
11 9 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.58%) Guidewire
11 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.58%) SendGrid
11 9 (0.58%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.51%) Cisco
12 8 (0.51%) Databricks
13 7 (0.45%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.45%) SAP